provided by the technicians. The detailed sets and costumes had been
fabricated using old photographs as reference. These included images by
Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott and Paul Strand, all classics of
photographic history.^9 Shore’s style descends from theirs, so in effect he
was shooting his own influences.
LostandFound
Away from fine-art photography, many artists who emerged in the 1960 s
had been attracted to photography as a mass cultural and lowbrow
medium, inseparable from other image forms.^10 Film imagery was central
to the mixed-media work of Pop artists (such as Robert Rauschenberg,
Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton), to Conceptual art (Ed Ruscha, John
Baldessari, John Hilliard, Victor Burgin, James Coleman, John Stezaker),
and to artists emerging in the late 1970 s (Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, Robert
Longo, Bruce Charlesworth, Sarah Charlesworth). Moreover, a great deal
126 of the significant art of the last thirty years has been in dialogue with film
109 Stephen Shore,On the Set of Annie,
Burbank, California, 1981.